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Moving on

The Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, has bought a holiday home in Israel, even though she has been there only once. The 20-year-old snapped up a £1.6m, 2,690 sq ft penthouse in the Mediterranean beach city of Netanya, a popular tourist resort. She visited the country last month for the quarter-finals of the 2008 Fed Cup - and clearly loved it. Born in Siberia, Sharapova has lived in America since she was seven, and owns a glass-fronted home in Manhattan Beach, California.